The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-02-24
IS THERE ANY HOPE?
New and Important Opinions of
Pulmonary Experts!
Can the Universal Consumption
be Successfully Treated?


DIR. Borgeon, a leading French doctor,
has new treatment for consumption!
He gives an enema of carbonic acid and
sulphuretted hydrogen gases, the latter
gas carrying the former into every part
of the throat and lungs.
The treatment, too, is directed at effects
the cause remains undisturbed.
What this cause is has been stated by
perhaps the highest pulmonary authority
in the world, i. g., the Brompton hospital
for consumptives, in London, Eng.
The malady every year carries off from
oneseveuth to one-ffth of the entire
population of England!
DR.. Payne, NJ. D., NJ. R. G. p, London,
is authority for this statement.
The same or greater proportion of
deaths obtains in America.
DR.. Payne also says that one-half the
total number of deaths from all other
causes have seeds of this disease in the
system which only require some irritant to
develop
DR.. Hermann Brehmer, an eminent Ger
man authority, says that consumption is
caused by deficient nutrition of the lungs,
by poor blood.
These authorities cannot be disputed.
The medical world recognizes them. The
uric acid is the irritant in the blood that
causes the development of the seeds
which DR.. Brehmer says lie dormant in
the blood.
Every particle of the blood which
passes through the lungs and heart, also
goes through the kidneys, and if they are
in the leaet deranged they cannot rid the
blood of Its killing poison. The thou.
sand little hair-like sewer tubes of the
diseased; and when they do, they corrupt
instead of purifying the blood. Kidney
disease may exist, and yet no pain occur
in that organ, because it is deficient in
nerves and sensation.
Dip your finger in acid every day and
it soon testers and is destroyed. Send
acid poisoned blood through the lungs
every second, and they soon give way.
The BrOmpton hospital investigation
showed that 25 per cent. of the victims of
consumption were afflicted with derapged
kidneys, which permitted the uric acid
poison to remain in the blood and irri-
tate the lungs. The uric acid is always
fighting every vital organ, and if there be
any inherent weakness in the
lungs it inevitably causes pneu-
monia, cough and consumption
The real cause of pulmonary troubles
being so authOritatively shown to bt
faulty, even though unsupported action OF
the kidneys, explains why, in order tC
master the dreaded consumption, ont
must rid the blood of the uric acid irri
tant which infames and burns up the luni
substance. For this purpose there is moth
ing equal to that great specific
Warmers safe cure. This rem
edy has now the favor of medical
on its merits. We have no doubt that il
the kidneys are kept in natural action
consumption, and a great many other
diseases caused by uric acid, will not only
be cured, but will be prevented.
When the kidney is healthy, no albumer
appears in the water, but albumen is
found in the water of more than half OF
those who die of consumption.
This, then, is the condition of things
that always precedes consumption: First
weakened kidneys; second, retained uric
acid, poisoning the blood; third
the development of disease in
the lungs by the irritant
acids passing through them. Then there
is a little cough in the morning; soon
thick, yellow matter is spit up, followed
by loss of flesh and strength, with dread
full night sweats; and when the patient
goes to his school physician for help, he
is put on cod liver oil which his stomach
weakened also by uric acid in the blood
cannot digest. Because there is no pain
present in the kidneys, the patient does
not think they are affected, but the kid
ney acid is doing its work every minute,
every hour, day and night, and by-and-by
the disease of the lungs has advanced
until pus is developed, then come hemorr-
hayes, and at last the CLASSY stare which
denotes that the end is near
A post-mortem examination of such
cases shows that the terrible uric acid has
completely destroyed the substance of the
lung.
1t is impossible to cure lung disease
when the blood is poisoned with uric
acid.